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JANUARY 1.1981-TEVET25
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UIA Appoints
Mellman, Zacks
Meyer W. Mellman and
Gordon B. Zacks were designated by United Israel Appeal (UIA) to serve as trustees for a one-year term, at
the organization's 55th
annual meeting held in New
York Dec. 10. Jerold C. Hoff-
berger of Baltimore was reelected chairman.
UIA, the major beneficiary of United Jewish Appeal,
, has 210 trustees divided be-
,   ..   Meyer W. Mellman
tween representatives^ of
Jewish Federations and
Zionist groups in the-U.S.~, •-
Since its estabhsRment in
1925, UIA has been fulfilling
the American Jewish com-
mitment-to assist, in the resettlement of immigrants in'
Israel. UIA is responsible for
supervising the flow and ex-
>   Gordon B. Zacks
penditure of American funds'
raised for this purpose.
- Chairman ' Hoffberger
noted in his annual report
that UIA allocated $292.5
million to the Jewish Agency
for Israel in fiscal 1980. Since
1970, UIA has.provided the-
Jewish   Agency,   its   sole
-operating'agent, with more
than $2 billion for immigration, absorption, rural settle-
- ment, youth care, and other
social needs of refugees
arriving in Israel.
Dinitz: Haig Is Israel's Friend
Jewish Family Service and Columbus Jewish Federation
representatives are shown above officially receiving a check
for' the special demonstration grant which JFS was recently
awarded by the Council of Jewish Federations and the federal government. Pictured are (left to right) JFS President
Stanley Yenkin, JFS Executive Director Earl Yaillen, Federation Executive Director Charles R. Schiffman and Federation President Bernard K. Yenkin.
Special Grant Awarded
To Help Immigrants
Jewish Family Service
(JFS) of Columbus has been
selected as one of only five
Jewish communal agencies
in the country to be awarded
a special demonstration
-B&ntby the Qmg$AJlm~
ish Federations and the federal government.
The grant is for one year
only and is intended to help
the Soviet Jewish immigrants who have come to Columbus become better inte-
- grated into the Columbus
Jewish community..,     , '.
Stanley Yenkin, *■ JFS
President, said that "although Jewish communities
have helped our Jewish
brethren from Russia with
immediate needs such as
shelter, food, clothing and
obtaining'jobs, we must also
concentrate on helping them
become more aware of the
American Jewish community and their involvement in
it." , < - .     "
Dr. Earl, Yaillen, JFS
Executive. Director, points
- out < that "it would be a.
shame if we worked so hard
to bring them out qf Russia
and then lost them as Jews,"
The grant was proposed by
JFS and.approved and sub-'
mitted by theCplumbus Jew-"
ish Federation^which is the
liaison between, the-Council
of Jewish Federations and
JFS. The grant was approved based on the importance of the work to be done.
In addition, it includes co-
ByHughOrgel
TEL AVIV (JTA)-Sim-
cha Dinitz, Israel's former.
Ambassador to the United
States, described U.S. Secretary of State-designate Gen.
Alexander Haig as a friend
of Israel who had shown
sympathy for Israel's case in
negotiations with the U.S.
about the freeing of the
Egyptian Third Army when
it was entrapped near the
Suez Canal during the Yom
KippurWar.
Speaking On an Israel Radio interview Dec. 21, Dinitz
said that Haig's intervention
prevented a crisis in Israel-
U.S. relations' at that time.
. "Gen. Haig always showed a.
keen understanding of Israel's security needs and'
posture ...; immediately
after the war, when the late
Golda Meir (then Israeli
Premier) came to Washington and had some very tough
talks with the President and
especially, with Dr.; Kissin-
' ger—the subject matter was
   .the freeing of the'Egyptian.
other segments of the'Jewish forces then surrounding it-
community including syna- the conversation ended, not
gogues and temples.          " in any very great accord. It
(continueoonpageu) was Gen. Haig who inter-
New Soviet Crackdown
Seen As Jews Harassed
operative efforts with other
local Jewish agencies. The
Jewish Center will be actively involved with'JFS in
implementing parts of the
program. As the program
vened at the,very end of the
talks with a view to improve
the situation and showed a
great understanding toward
us, to prevent a crisis," Dinitz said.
Haig was serving at the
time as a deputy to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Dinitz said Israel could
expect President-elect Reagan to continue President
Carter's policies towards the
Camp David accords and the.
autonomy-negotiations, as
there, is always a basic continuity of policy after
changes in the U.S. Administration. But he warned Israelis not to be surprised if
there were some changes in
emphasis once the new Administration settles in.
"I must caution that while
every succeeding Administration undertakes what the
previous one has implemented, especially .in foreign
policy, we have to understand .that .within: the same
framework different policy
and different emphasis can
take place," he said. Dinitz
said the new Administration
would, for the first time,
seek a solution to the Palestinian question apart from
the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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As'81 rolls in; we'd
like to convey, our
heartfelt wishesfor
you and yours .„
"enjoy altl"
Original Service WiiS Initiate
Agudas Achim Centennial
NEW YORK.(JTA)-The
National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ) has
released information just
received that in Moscow, on
Dec. 9, eight KGB officers,
two in uniform and six plain-
clothesmen,' and a - woman
-representing the Moscow
municipality, forced their
way into a Jewish' studies
group being conducted by
long-term refusnik Ilya
Essas.
The group was threatened '
with fhe 'accusation  of
holding  an  "illegal"
religious gathering; and was
told they could be indicted
'- for "violating laws on Sep;
aration of Church and State"
and of Church and School,"
according to the .NCSJ. The
names of those present' were '■
recorded  by  the security'
forces. Those without their
Jewish Journalist Executed In Iran
By Edwin Ey tan;
PARIS (JTA)-rAn Iranian
Jewish journalist, ; Simon
' Farzami, was executed
Dee. 16 by a firing squad in,
Teheran, The news was first
reported in Paris Dec. 18 by
the French news agency Ag-
-tyfrWfcS*atee Presse <AFP>,*
, fpr whom the veteran journalist worked for several
■years': However, sources in
• Paris confirmed only Dec. 19
that Farzami was Jewish
and had at one time been an
' active member of the Teheran Jewish community. He
ta&JSffi££S&>-
of Ayatollah Ruholla Kho
meini. ,■-«. -v
Farzami, who was '70
years old, headed for almost
20 years the main Teheran
French-language . daily,
''Journal de Teheran," serv-'
ing a$ its editor and publisher. After the paper closed,
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internal passports were
taken into custody,, -but
released after their identities were confirmed.
Before leaving, the officers* confiscated books of
Jewish content, including a
copy .of the Gemorah,
published in Russian before
the 1917 Revolution. The
34-year-old Essas, who has
been a refusnik since 1973,
and whose parents are in Israel, expressed "great concern" about this new turn of
events, i.
In a related act of harassment, the NCSJ reported
that on the morning .of
Dec. 16, the KGB entered an
informal nursery school for
' refusnik children and
ordered all present to leave.
They said the premises were
to be closed until the'evening.. '
- Hebrew self-study groups,
which 'have functioned for
' years, have also become the
target of the KGB. Informal
study groups taught by
veteran, < refusniks Yuli
Kbsharovsky, Vladiim^
Shakhnovsky and LevGoro-
detsky were recently
disrupted, and the participants also threatened
with prosecution, the NCSJ
said.
The Agudas Achim Congregation will  initiate its.
100th anniversary year with'
an original service written
by Irw|n Wiener, executive
director of the synagogue, ■
and an original composition:.
written by-Cantor Schifman ~
and Irwin Wiener, Jan. 11, at -
7:30p.ni.   ,
A special feature-at this
program will be a tribute to'
Rabbi Samuel W. Ruben-
stein commemorating, his
32nd anniversary as
spiritual leader of the con-"
gregation.
Committees working on
this program headed by
Louis R. Goldfarb and William L. Goodman include:'
Rose Wolman, Sylvia Schec-
ter,  Nathan Nedelman,
Bella Wexner, Harriet Bo-,
gart; 'Florence Cabakbff,
Sarah Tolpen, Morris Fleish- -
man, Leo Weinberg, Thelma
Goldfarb, Roberta Schwartz/
Eleanor Yenkin, Eli Levi-
son, Dale' Levison, Irvin
Stein, Louis Ruben and Hil-
lardAbroms.. •■
Friday evening, Jan. 9, the
sisterhood Sabbath will
feature Mrs. Samuel W.
Rubenstein as guest
speaker. The sisterhood will
participate in the service;
and sponsor the Oneg Shab-
bat  following.  The
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Samuel W. Rubenstein
Gladys -Nedelman, Harlan
Ruben, Steven Shkolnik,
Herbert Solomon, Bernard
R, Ruben, Harry Schwartz,
.Herschel Baker, Jerome
Schottenstein, Philip Born-
stein, Simon Handler, Philip
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brotherhood Sabbath will be s
featured Saturday morning,
Jan. 10, with members of
brotherhood participating
and hosting  the Kiddush-
following the service.
Dr. Norman Lamm, president of Yeshiva University,
wiU.be the guest speaker
Sunday, Jan. 11. There will ■
also be a special tribute to
the past presidents and '
chairmen of the board of -
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